The court acquitted Vassiliev in the theft of shares on 2 billion rubles – BBC Russian

• May 8, 2015
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The prosecutor’s office asked the court to sentence to eight years Vasilyev conditional

Moscow Presnensky Court acquitted former official in the Defense Ministry Yevgeny Vasilyev embezzling shares 31st State Design Institute spetsstroitelstva (GPISS) for 2 billion rubles, having considered unreliable expert opinion that, according to the court , overstated the value of the shares.

The court also ruled that Vasilyev is not underestimating the cost of the building “31 GPISS” on Smolensky Boulevard.

The court on Friday continued sentencing Evgenia Vasilyeva, which was previously removed a key accusation of embezzlement in the sale of assets of the military department.

It is expected that in the This session will be announced punishment. Earlier, the prosecutor’s office asked the court to sentence Vasilyev eight years probation and satisfy claims worth about 800 million rubles. For her alleged accomplices prosecution also requested suspended sentences – from four to eight years in prison.

Presnensky Court has held that a former official in the Defense Ministry in transactions for the sale of military property cheating ex-minister Anatoly Serdyukov. The sentence sounded the phrase “reported false information” and “misleading.” The Court also decided that all crimes committed Vasilyeva “for personal gain”.

The amount of damage – 6 times less

On Wednesday, prosecutors reported decision to withdraw from the charge of embezzlement Vasilyeva the sale of property Defense Ministry. In particular, the Court considers unproven guilt Vasilyeva of abuse of office in the episode with the sale of land in the village Peresyp, and also in connection with the sale of all of the objects in the criminal case of the property.

In addition, the amount of damage that, According to investigators, Vasilyeva reasons of state, was reduced six times – from 3 billion rubles to 550 million rubles. This court spokesman Nina Jurkova urged not to make premature conclusions.

“The amount of damage in the verdict is not yet made public, so make premature conclusions on this matter should not be” – she said.

According to investigators, Vasilyeva, using the personal confidence of ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, led him astray and forced to sell a number of facilities the Defense Ministry at low prices. Vasilyev itself rejects all accusations.

Sam Anatoly Serdyukov stated at the hearing that their actions Yevgeny Vasilyev brought only benefit the agency, given that all the sold property was illiquid.

suspended sentence

announced in late April, the requirement to appoint a prosecutor’s office and its associates Vasilvoy suspended sentences provoked outrage and the investigation of human rights defenders. An anonymous representative of the investigation told RIA Novosti news agency basis for the application of Article 73 of the Criminal Code (“probation”) for all the defendants were not. As the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Anti-Corruption Dmitri Gorovtsov, the prosecution changed its position in this business for a very short period of time.

The Commissioner for Human Rights, Ella Pamfilova said that if prosecutors follow this logic, then “it is necessary to revise and business Navalny brothers “.

About the beginning of the investigation of the so-called” Oboronservis case “became known in the autumn of 2012. Shortly thereafter, was dismissed Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, but in relation to the ex-minister no charges have been filed.

In the middle of December, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, speaking before the Council of the Federation, confirmed that the investigation was “a great desire to bring to justice Serdyukov,” but simply investigators allegedly found no tangible evidence of his guilt.